"But my lord, how will Kayvan get credit then?"
Pasha Farzah was quite pleased with his plan until the ruminative Alexander suddenly bashed him with this question.
"..!!!.." And it instantly snapped him out of his smugness.
Indeed, one of the main reasons for attacking Bahu originally was this- to show off Kayvan's military skills and thus put him in the same contending bracket as his elder brother Mirzah.
The plan was to let Mirzah attack Bahu and get bogged down by its defending forces while Kayvan led the men from Ankoot on a flanking attack.
However now, with the positions switched,
"That…." Pasha Farzah felt like he had just been thrown off the cloud he was swimming on, crashing into the ground with a giant headache. The elder man thus could be seen rapidly pressing his temple with his thick fingers, fighting to keep away the rapidly encroaching headache.
It appeared like everything they had talked about till now was about to become mute and irrelevant.
